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Google Answers' predecessor was Google Questions and Answers, which was launched in June 2001. This service involved Google staffers answering questions by e-mail for a flat fee (US$3.00). It was fully functional for about 24 hours, after which it was shut down, possibly due to excessive demand and the tough competition that Yahoo! set in place.
Docs may refer to: Department of Community Services. Display Operator Console System, DOCS (software) package. Docs.com. Colloquial term for Dr. Martens footwear. Google Docs. Software documentation.
Strange laws. Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
Release. October 1, 2011. ( 2011-10-01) "Weird Al" Yankovic Live! - The Alpocalypse Tour is a live video recording of "Weird Al" Yankovic 's concert during the Alpocalypse tour, at Massey Hall, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that aired on Comedy Central on October 1, 2011. It was released in an extended edition on Blu-ray and DVD on October 4, 2011.
— Greta Thunberg, Stockholm November 2018 Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it. The situation depressed her, and as a result, at the age of 11, she stopped talking and eating much and lost ten kilograms (22 lb) in two months. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome ...
Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on March 7, 2013, [1] the channel began uploading videos on September 23 of the same year, consisting of simple slides accompanied by beeps ...
The results of the two tests correlate approximately inversely: a text with a comparatively high score on the Reading Ease test should have a lower score on the Grade-Level test. Rudolf Flesch devised the Reading Ease evaluation; somewhat later, he and J. Peter Kincaid developed the Grade Level evaluation for the United States Navy .
Duck test: A humorous abductive reasoning test based on the activities of a duck. English as She Is Spoke: A 19th century Portuguese-English phrasebook that became legendary for its overtly literal and inaccurate translations. Engrish: Attempts by East Asian people – especially the Japanese – to construct English words and phrases.